Edomite
Kingdom
The Edomite Kingdom consisted of a Semitic
speaking tribal group inhabiting the Negev
Desert and the
Wadi
Araba
Valley of what is now southern
Dead Sea
and surrounding
Jordan.
Archaeological excavations in southern
Jordan
have uncovered dozens of sites dated to the
7th and 6th centuries BC and attributed to
the Edomites.
Modern
Buseirah is generally identified with
biblical Bozrah, the Edomite capital.
However, most
of the Edomite sites are small villages,
farms, or semi nomadic sites. Some of these
still have remains that were used for mining
copper during the Roman Empire.
The main stretch of villages that they
traveled is from the
Dana
Nature Reserve
to
Petra.
This is a great hiking route for adventure
seekers with spectacular landscapes.
Edomites
are usually associated with their unique
pottery, that was traditionally carried down
through the
Nabataean Empire, a
ware found and manufactured both in southern
Jordan
and the Negev
Desert.
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